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Homosexual men in San Francisco had started the 1960s interacting
mostly in private, informal groups, meeting in bars and house
parties. But by 1972, the city had a 'gay community' and 'gay
pride, ' all celebrated with a parade. Through numerous
organizations and publications, gay men created a counter-publicity
to fight against their domination and subordination, and had begun
to try to build a community that would foster deeper, more
meaningful relationships with each other. The emergent
counter-publicity and community in turn created the social spaces
necessary for gay men to create an expanding range of possible
meanings for their 'gayness, ' meanings that aligned more closely
with their experiences and which better helped them meet their
needs and desires. The gayness they created could expand and
contract depending on the needs and circumstances of the individual
or group. Rather than the typical story of the evolution from
'conservative' to 'radical' social movement, The Meaning of Gay
sees the development of gay politics as the shift from the need to
establish a public-facing gayness in the early 1960s, to the
community building efforts that began in the mid-1960s, through the
efforts to create a gayness based in authenticity, brotherhood, and
revolution in the early 1970s. Each of these developments flowed
from gay men's responses to the swiftly changing San Francisco and
American environment. The dramatic explosion of possibilities for
gayness that emerged during the 1960s may serve as a touchstone for
those concerned with the problems of gay male life in the
twenty-first century. This book traces these developments as they
was recorded in the gay periodicals of the era, and analyzes them
from the perspective of John Dewey's theory of mind, desire,
public, valuation, and democratic community.
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